IIRC BFL started advertising their SC products (without revealing they were ASICs) at least 6 months ago. Assuming they have been working on them for that long, they will have put 10 months of work in them by October.

IIRC BFL started advertising their SC products (without revealing they were ASICs) at least 6 months ago. Assuming they have been working on them for that long, they will have put 10 months of work in them by October.

It was WAY before that.

Their 'Super Computer' products were advertised right next to the single and rig-box from the outset.

Was it really known back then that the 'super computer' product was in fact a future asic or did that happen later?

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Was it really known back then that the 'super computer' product was in fact a future asic or did that happen later?

Nothing specific was mentioned about it other than the name. From the inception of the website, there were always 3 products showing.

Yeah, that is what I remember as well. I guess I just assumed that the super computer was just a bigger rig-box for more money, heh.

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Uh, or they changed their plans from using fpga sometime between announcing SC and announcing future ASIC products? If I'm remembering right the mini-rig is a bit shrunken from initial announcement specs, suggesting that trying to get more BFL fpga units into a reasonably managed single unit would be quite a difficult engineering challenge.